Worlds Fastest R/C Aircraft Carrier

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[@rctestflight]

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[@brucebaxter6923]

Snow mobile. At some point you have to ditch the prop and go for a Pilton wheel then ditch that and go for snow mobile tracks, a pair to form the v of the hull

[@williams.7314]

You look like Logic, the rapper.

[@mapsofbeing5937]

that one propeller plane there, is it lost?

[@roryhennessey1983]

The first hour of war thunder is so much fun. After that just uninstall

[@godlugner5327]

14:26 is why I subscribed

[@w4SwD]

Well, with the video being sponsored by Warthunder, there is a non-zero chance, someone will leak classified documents proving the real top speed of the USS Nimitz is above 37.18 mph.

[@frozenstar7048]

it's like 70 mph or something, people clocked it

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@frozenstar7048 Questionable, considering hull speed and propulsion. The official fastest ship is waterjet propelled, is a wave-piercing cat and goes about 67.

[@CircsC]

We already have dudes in the comments section here saying they served aboard and they're actively hinting at the real number. It actually reminds me of how in WWII the Brits found that it was better to hire women for top secret work because they didn't blab idly like the men did.

[@wekkimeif7720]

So they did not beat the speed record

[@BirchPig]

That awkward moment when the most recent classified data leak at my work was some moron sending a reply all with some subsafe propaganda that included the speed of a sub. (relax it was a classified document being sent to people with clearence. It was their computers that received the data didn't have clearence to store or transmit classified files. )

[@raistrose7773]

If we are honest, 35mph is pretty good for a fucking city.

[@the_darkgameryt]

Prob faster than that, it’s just what they tell the public

[@air-headedaviator1805]

Considering most small metroplexes have a top speed of 0

[@otm646]

It's substantially faster than 35, it's likely around 43 regularly. I've heard north of that on exception.

[@ElectricityTaster]

@@otm646 That's only when going downwind and your mom didn't board the ship.

[@bundles1978]

I have been told that if you were to floor a Nimitz from zero, it would almost pop a wheelie. Im sure the guy was slightly exaggerating, but he did make it very clear they were a lot faster than we are told publicly.

[@anthonytodd5750]

I was stationed on the USS South Carolina CGN 37 in 1975 during post commissioning yard work sea trials. We were one of the escorts for the Nimitz. I can tell you during the sea trials we were going well over our official max speed of 36 knots, and the Nimitz passed us and walked away at a substantially higher speed.

[@birdseyeview1543]

I have also witnessed this phenomenon from the deck of the USS Butte AE27, you just can't imagine that much mass accelerating so quickly and moving away that fast. One of those rare moments where your brain cannot compute what the heck your eyes are seeing....

[@napierpaxman]

Sports tuned lol! :D @@birdseyeview1543

[@Ty-bz7zx]

Steam is pretty powerful =))

[@BiscuitWaite]

I was on the Worden CG-18 and we were a twin screw double boiler. 33mph may not seem fast but when you displace 4000 tons, it's pretty damn quick. The California did a high speed run along side of us and it passed us and it's much much bigger.

[@Mrx1080]

I was thinking the same thing, the top speed of military vessels is classified and a more conservative number is publically recorded, from my time in the RAN, USN carriers were said to do close to 50 knots.

[@SkeeterPondRC]

As an RC model boat builder, this hurt my soul and was hilariously entertaining at the same time.

[@p.r.5628]

Agree. Never i have seen someone trowing so much power and effort to an boat and end up with that less performance.

[@robertadams2857]

I like how he said to turn away If a modeler…😂😂😂

[@leaderoftheautobots1985]

still though, imagine seeing a legit aircraft carrier going faster than a racing boat. *terrifying.*

[@michiganengineer8621]

The number for Aircraft Carrier speeds is the OFFICIAL maximum speed. I served on CV-60 (USS Saratoga) in the early 1980's, during one of our sea trials we topped 40 knots (46mph/74kph) for over an hour.

[@EleanorPeterson]

Naah. The speedo was adjusted for propaganda purposes. You fell right into the trap, my friend. 🤭 It's kinda like fitting weird-sized wheels to cars to give (apparently) phenomenal top speeds. (I'm kidding. Everybody knows that cars make lousy aircraft carriers.)

[@coryhueske5245]

Wind, and sea conditions. In perfectly optimal conditions I believe it, but the official number probably couldn’t be tested and certified in those conditions as they are rare, or it was put into a computer program that gave the speed number, and it uses an average of sea conditions for its calculations.

[@alttabby3633]

loose lips sink ships

[@michiganengineer8621]

@@EleanorPeterson Actually the radar system I worked on needed extremely accurate speed, yaw, roll and pitch data since it could do a hands-off landing. The only data we used from ship systems was speed, everything else was internally measured to less than 0.1 degree of accuracy.

[@timlong1462]

@@alttabby3633ha! I need to look up if this is literally the reason for the saying. It's rare I see a saying so directly applied in modern day

[@mstreich]

Now I expect a 1/2 scale ground effect aircraft carrier. 18:20

[@iKidTutor]

that's more or less 50% of an actual helicarrier 😍

[@null_focus5512]

Just mount the deck from this on one of his ground effect designs lol

[@theothertonydutch]

Yessss

[@happychayka]

​@@iKidTutor americans, when math

[@iKidTutor]

@@happychayka Not quite but still funny.

[@UltraBadass]

6:22 The Ducks at the Park are free you can take them

[@clonkex]

Lol

[@Veikra]

Must be a rich town to give free ducks

[@Veikra]

That is not how you pick up a duck though. I watched a tutorial

[@s4dg]

@@Veikra that video was for domesticated ducks, for wild ducks there isn't a much better way than they picked it up in the video without it getting away. picking up ducks is still a bad idea, they will bite you.

[@senatorjosephmccarthy2720]

It's a federal crime to take waterfowl out of season without a federal duck stamp. A Serious penalty. Stop with the tempting of people!

[@ronnybe7994]

But you didn't land a plane on it! Dereliction of duty

[@luke889h]

I was hoping his chase drone friends would do a touch and go but his radio tower interfered

[@sdoc3]

WHILE the carrier are doing 35 mph!

[@robertadams2857]

Great idea

[@Studio23Media]

He did that in a recent video

[@JurassicJolts]

The limiters for speed on a nuclear air crafter carrier are cavitation of the propellers and the strength of the tip of the boat which is flattened for stability. The force needed to go faster through fluid and with a larger vessel increase exponentially, not linearly.

[@kushlanravindra5786]

The problem with cavitation is countered by having variable pitch propellers, and hull strength is not an issue considering that an aircraft carriers hull is 4in thick. Hull speed increases when the length of the water plane of a vessel increases, it doesn't decrease. Also there isn't too much of a worry about the energy required to spin the propellers when you have two nuclear powerplants onboard

[@borgonianevolution]

I was actually ON the Nimitz for almost three years. I am gonna say the speed rating listed was max TURNING speeds. Sea trials was a blast layin that ole girl over. I can attest that yes the Nimitz could go anywhere it wanted as long as there was enough water to float her. We were in port when Hurricane Diana came up the east coast. WORST place to be in a ship so we put out to sea. While out there someone got the bright idea to collect weather data so we aimed her into the hurricane... launched air craft out side go into the eye, launch more air craft... go back out recover the ones outside then go back into the eye for the rest. Waves were braking over the bow and that big ole beast barely moved.

[@shirothehero0609]

That's wicked cool. Must have been a crazy thing to experience. The day that the Nimitz gets retired will be a sad day.

[@borgonianevolution]

@@shirothehero0609 Yes it was. . That and many many more surprising things that happened when I was onboard. My favorite was one night after a bad thunderstorm on the Eastern Med I was able to kill some time between flight ops and got to set up a camera on the fan tail. I caught a shot just as the clouds were breaking up and the light rays were flowing thru. That typical AHHH ah AHHH moment when the Gods part the clouds and show themselves to the world. So calm and peaceful Sadly all that film was lost with all the others when the building the were in had collapsed. Over 40 rolls of 35mm film shot in the Vatican alone. I had pictures of the Pope on Easter Sunday giving mass to over a million people. I was so far away that he was only 1/3 of the height of the picture I took with a 200mm telephote lens.

[@cloudpandarism2627]

SCALE BUILDER all over the world: "i want it to be slow and graceful" RCTESTFLIGHT: "hold my mach 9 carrier!" not gonna lie i chuckled much more than i should

[@Buconoir]

That's 35 knots, not mph, so a carrier is a little faster than you think....actually they are a lot faster than people think. I've seen one go speeding off so fast that it left us on the escorting destroyers in the dust, even as we kicked it up to our own classified top speed. Good build you did, here.

[@jttech44]

Yeah, the "official speeds" are always an understatement in the military world. I've been driving on a highway next to a military base where they do tank training, and had an abram's pass me while I was driving well over it's official top speed. I've heard the carriers are the fastest ship in their battle groups, on purpose, because they wanted them able to GTFO if necessary. Makes sense really, they're, well, awfully expensive lol

[@zJoriz]

Yeah I'm pretty sure he confused knots for miles there.

[@zavtparticles6828]

@@jttech44 yea, official speeds are usually one prop maximum speeds, not all four.

[@stevenmarlowe9767]

@@jttech44it’s just physics… maximum hull speed in knots is equal to 1.34x square root of the length of the hull at the waterline in feet. So for a standard displacement hull (non-planing) a longer ship will always be faster as long as sufficient power is available.

[@spencer___5623]

According to @stevenmarlowe9767 calculations a modern aircraft carrier can go 43.2 knots(provided it has enough power) a modern destroyer can go 30.2 knots(same stipulation as above) all of this is based off of his given formula and googled data on the ships. All of this is also taken with a grain of salt as the military could have top secret ways of making ships faster.

[@kofeyh]

Imagine crusing along and then USS Nimitz saunters past at mach 9.6.

[@Raceb8420]

A number of years ago my cousin was an officer onboard the Nimitz. Every time our families got together, I would ask him how fast his boat could go. And every time he reminded me that he wasn't at liberty to speak on the matter, as her max speed is classified. However, he did tell me that the Nimitz was capable of running circles around the cruisers in their battle group, while they maintained a straight course.

[@BrownRoze]

Burnt ESC is such a distinctive smell. I smoked a 160amp Yokomo ESC in a parking garage drifting. Months later & you can still smell it.

[@bannablitz247]

I would just like to say that it seems Daniel is a kid with adult money but his business runs on this philosophy and I love it.

[@wraithgard]

35mph is the unclassified speed ;)

[@Bolphgolph]

Yeah, the actual vessel can do mach 1.1 (like the model)

[@marcovw6415]

​@@turkaviationhahaha

[@enja001]

Oh they definitely do a fair bit faster

[@christianterrill3503]

We could figure out how fast they actually go tho right? Like when a war breaks out the aircraft carrier will be sent to that area of the world seems like you could work the math out early.

[@MoisheLettvin]

my dad was on the Eisenhower and it sounds like maybe sometimes they could, for lack of a better word, send it

[@VizzVideos]

I love these videos! I also enjoy hull modeling and making crazy-wave RC boat videos, and learned that scale speed actually scales by the square root of length scale, rather than length scale itself. So for 1/200 scale, multiply the speed by about 14. Still really fast: 37 model mph scales to over 500 full scale mph - jumbo jet speed! Time also scales this way - if you want a "real" looking video, slow it to 1/14 speed. This is based on Froude number - it can be used to scale other hull parameters too.

[@jamesy8581]

You should had extendable hydrofoils to it, so it functions normal at low speeds and on plane at high speeds.

[@Exkirk12]

I love how it started out sane with the mods then got completly out of hand

[@robertadams2857]

Exactly why I watch 😂

[@crackedemerald4930]

borderline aircraft, carrier.

[@collinkaufman2316]

Aircraft carrier aircraft

[@crestdazoltral7705]

Mph != knots. Unofficial reports from other navies have Nimitz class ships going ~42kn (48,3mph, 77,8kmh). At that speed your model carrier would probably become airborne itself.

[@planespottermerijn]

Another note on this, that's *fast* for a modern warship. I know frigates and destroyers that only go 35 knots. They're some of the fastest warships around and they're huge

[@robinnautica9773]

That can't be right the fastest carrier goes about 30kn it's the Gerald-R. -Ford-Klass with nuclear power

[@planespottermerijn]

​@@robinnautica9773Lol no carriers definitely run faster than 30kts

[@Ninjastahr]

​@@robinnautica9773that's the unclassified "normal" top speed

[@robinnautica9773]

@@planespottermerijn okay experts than please explain how such a big displacement hull could get up to 50 mph.

[@TheRealRCSparks]

I love this channel so much

[@hwinterr]

love the Queen build brother, desert trucks are so cool

[@coolrex69]

I love your KZbin gold series

[@samhklm]

You need to have Ward Carroll as guest commentator. "Deep Intel on rapid deployment modules for the Ford class carriers"

[@gascan]

Turns out water doesn't scale linearly. Take a look at something called Dynamic Similitude Speed. You need to use the square root of the scale to determine the scale speed. You also use the square root of the scale to to slow down time when looking at the film of it. You actually reached a scale equivalent of 525.8 mph. Also, there is a scale combat club in the Seattle area that builds functional RC battleships, which sounds right up your alley. It's an engineering challenge to build functional cannons and the damage control to make it survive the fury of battle. Much more fun than basic, boring scale modeling.

[@75keg75]

0:53 “hey baby can we just watch big ships crashing through waves…. “

[@robinbennett5994]

I'd love to see some slo-mo of the final version, when it was almost jumping out of the water and crashing down. That would be epic!

[@dannydecamp6846]

So I heard the actual top speed of USA nuclear aircraft is a “secret” but after 9/11 there was an aircraft carrier at port somewhere on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. It traveled across the ocean and came to port somewhere on the east coast USA. Someone calculated that it had to be doing an average speed of 70mph.. it wasn’t doing 70 the entire time so it can probably actually go even faster. Am I the only person who has heard this?

[@jaysengstacken2118]

I heard a navy guy telling a story about an actual speed test they did with the 4 power plant a/c carrier we have; built as a testbed. It typically uses only 1, and 2 if it's in a bit of a hurry. They used 4 during a proving test and it hydroplaned.

[@ahmedmohanned9994]

Some advice , the nose design on these aircraft carriers is meant to dive under waves and cruise smooth and stable in giant waves , not a surfer , a smoother , longer pointed nose with a horizontal flat belly will surprisingly make it lift higher and more mass on both ends ( torsional inertia ) will stop the pitch bouncing up and down .

[@patrickradcliffe3837]

0:04 Twenty years in the Navy stationed aboard almost every Nimitz class and the Enterprise: yeah, but no. That is just what the public is told.

[@CircsC]

DO NOT POST THE NIMITZ CLASS OWNER'S MANUAL PDF HERE - POST IT TO THE WARTHUNDER FORUMS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE DOES (hey FBI, this is called a joke. No one sane wants idiots leaking our stuff.)

[@LuckyLeprechaun100]

people who comment without watching the whole video cant even get 4 seconds in these days lmao

[@citratune7830]

@@LuckyLeprechaun100 wtf r u saying lol why would he wait til finishing to comment about something relevant at 4 seconds in

[@LuckyLeprechaun100]

did you finish it before commenting@@citratune7830

[@JohnJaggerJack]

Needless to say you might already know this. That hull, really wants to be submerged and not half-exposed like speed boats. Which goes to show how in engineering, everything is a compromise. Large hulls are optimized to allow water to flow around them with out many losses. They are efficient at low speeds and awful at high speeds. Speed hulls are optimized to have the least contact with water, they want to be above water. They are efficient at high speeds but awful at low speeds.

[@therealjamescobb]

I read the first part of this as it needs to be turned into a submarine

[@justinmiller3349]

I'm pretty sure this whole thing ends with a ground effect flying aircraft carrier

[@KO-pk7df]

This carrier is fantastic! Whole lotta fun watching it go! I was on the Forrestal CV-59 in the North Sea. We were at flight ops with 74Kts of wind over the bow and once in a while a wave would break onto the flight deck from port and Starboard aft. Our aircraft were getting salt water on them and we had to work long hours with water displacement compound etc for corrosion control.

[@pcka12]

You can work out the maximum theoretical speed of a displacement hull from it's waterline length. The full size aircraft carrier cannot go any faster because the back end will 'squat' & the front end try to climb it's bow wave.

[@sprolyborn2554]

this is true until you start reaching into the truly ludicrous when it comes to power. anything can plane with enough power.

[@pcka12]

@sprolyborn2554 with an aircraft carrier weighing in at over a thousand tons I suspect that the excess heat generated by a power source capable of making it plane would melt through the bottom of the Hull!

[@sprolyborn2554]

@@pcka12 well yeah. The point still stands. With enough power, anything can plane.

[@pcka12]

@@sprolyborn2554 the physics of the junction between two fluids one practically incompressible & the other not!

[@sprolyborn2554]

@@pcka12 again, eventually it could ride over its own bow wave. Of course the power needed isn't anything we have but it is still possible. I've seen sailboat hulls plane with a big enough diesel crammed in the bilge.

[@badmongo2996]

Daniel, I served on the Nimitz. The claimed ~35 knots is not the max speed, that is the average speed of that carrier. The Navy will not officially release the actual speed as national security. Just saying, we left San Diego around noon ,were told to heavy tie-down alll birds on deck, and we crossed made Japan port in under 24hrs. I had a bird on deck with an avionics issue that required us to run the GPS and nav. The carrier was creating a wake over 60ft tall, and our GPS was reporting almost double the top speed you claimed. We crossed the Pacific Ocean in a day....

[@badmongo2996]

The carrier is always the fastest ship, the true speed is classified on purpose.

[@wiredforstereo]

I have heard one or more sailors report 60 knots, (70 mph). That's 1680 miles per day. Hawaii in one day seems nearly doable, but Japan in one day seems outlandish.

[@chakflying1]

I think this is only possible if they are also massively under-reporting the shaft power of their propulsion. Referencing data like top speeds reported by cruise liners (e.g. 30kts at 80MW for the Queen Mary 2), and using a conservative Cube law P = v^3, it would take a massive 650MW shaft power to reach a speed of 60kts. It's still within the possibility of the nuclear powerplants (2 reactors, 550MW each according to wiki), but to dissipate that much heat on a ship is insane (taking a few tons of sea water per second?).

[@teaboy8362]

@@chakflying1Considering that this is the US navy we’re talking about I’m sure they’ve found a way to do it

[@cdmonmcginn7561]

​@@chakflying1well the (public) generation capacity is like 1.5GW

[@tracybowling1156]

Thank you, Daniel, for showing all of the building of the boat parts in the video. I really enjoyed it! I definitely noticed, and I appreciate it! 😊

[@stephenlewis9159]

I'm so here for this. Were you hinting from the out of water shots that an aircraft carrier ground-effect plane is next? Hahahahaha!

[@drunkskunk00]

Hydrofoil Aircraft carrier when? :D Awesome video!

[@FeartheLess]

next week: building a full scale RC US Navy

[@samuelhayes5198]

How about a fleet tied together using ardupilot? Single waypoint paths and they all stay in formation

[@spammerscammer]

Maybe a full scale chinese navy

[@Ninjastahr]

​@@spammerscammer do both and have em duke it out

[@Skroggn]

Dude you are killing it with these videos. We need more creators like you. Would have been cool to do trim tabs controlled by the pixhawk.

[@Plons0Nard]

0:30 The way you handle the microphone 😂🤣👍🏻🤝🏻🇳🇱

[@Linuxpunk81]

I am a retired US submarine sonar tech and we would hunt these for sport 😂honestly really cool model. Lots of speculation about speeds in the comments, remember that it's always measured in knots not mph and I know all the real answers but I can't tell you 😅

[@Debbiebabe69]

Speed dosnt scale up 1:1 with size. Roughly for every 10 times bigger something is, its 'equivilant speed' is only 3 times bigger. So if a 10m long boat goes 10mph, a 100m long boat's 'scale speed' would be 30mph, not 100mph.

[@Endelin]

You know a project is getting fun when you're thinking about the optimal CG of an aircraft carrier.

[@secondengineer9814]

lmao, it's pretty funny to imagine an aircraft carrier actually going that fast

[@edwardhammock24]

Love your tenacity. Good effort. I was in the Royal Navy and whilst on a British frigate I supported a US Presidential class carrier. Seeing it do over 35 knots was awe inspiring, about a quarter square mile of sea erupted outta the stern when it accelerated to flying stations.

[@justflight898]

love the cookies in the tuppaware container at 13:46

[@Advil1024]

You turned an aircraft carrier into a three point hydroplane basically lol

[@JessWLStuart]

It's such a joy to see your inner kid come out while you're playing with your carrier! Yep! Your carrier is faster than the published speed of a nuclear carrier. I've been told (unofficially over beers) the actual speed is up around 45 to 50 knots.

[@joshacollins84]

Every time the hatch opens and smoke pours out, I laugh out loud! I'm a child at heart.

[@cj_clippy]

Daniel you are amazing! The things you make are so fascinating. I love your videos and your humor!

[@puritan7473]

The footage with the music at the end - best part of the whole video !! But great video, looked a lot of fun to make!

[@mineline5620]

21:16 "But that is classified information" Random warthunder player : "Not anymore!"

[@SamCyanide]

20:30 it looks like some kind of mecha from an anime haha super sick

[@stanmccorkle]

"The 1930 Robertson Waterplane ground-effect vehicle powered by an outboard motor". There are pictures and videos, but I don't think I can post a pic in the comments. I saw this the other day and immediately thought this might be something you'd build or at least be interested in knowing existed, if you don't already. In other news... it's getting to be grass cutting season. I hope you are working on your next autonomous mower contraption. I'm a long time subscriber to the channel and grateful for your willingness to share your talents with the world. Keep up the great work! - Stanford

[@jimsvideos7201]

An aircraft carrier getting up on plane, what a time to be alive.

[@zeilstar]

The duck cracked me up. Thanks :)

[@andyd1992]

Make it autonomous!!

[@TechGorilla1987]

I'm now adding seeing a planing super-carrier to my bingo card for the next 5 years.

[@rafasgarally3975]

A Navy chopper pilot, once told me, in the 60s, he was lowering a pilot on to the deck, he looked to see what the chopper speed was and said it was 65 knots. That is the relative speed needed to keep up with the carrier to place the pilot onboard safely.

[@TrailAngelRock]

When I was in the Navy we were told an aircraft carrier could do 60+ MPH. The + ment anything above 60 was classified.

[@noanyobiseniss7462]

You can add a tow line to the drone with magnets for the future meltdowns!

[@7seriesmax]

About 10 years ago, I took a cheap RC boat from Walmart and added the controls and motor from my wrecked Losi RC car. It had so much power. It would spin the boat clockwise when it accelerated. I wound up adding on a hull plane to the right hand rear corner to counteract the torque. Then I put three battery packs in the nose of the boat to keep it from jumping out of the water. Eventually, I wound up having to shave my prop down to 5/8 of the size it came. Eventually, when I got it all straightened out the thing would do an Olympic size swimming pool in 2 1/2 seconds. It blew out four different driveshafts to the point where it sits on its stand on the shelf because it was so much fun. There’s a few eventually in there because it took about two weeks of an hour a day messing with it to get the thing to work. You want more power? It’s gonna take a little tooling.

[@mathewmichuta5286]

Love your channel, have you looked into the wildwing vertical sails? I'd watch the heck out of you experimenting with them!

[@rey5597]

⁠I went on a tiger cruise when my buddy was in the navy on the USS Carl Vinson. We did a drag race with the rest of the fleet. It accelerated the slowest but had a higher top speed than the rest of the fleet. It eventually overtook the other ships. Definitely very very powerful. It was a hell of an experience that trip

[@meistro32]

17:53 When a new oil deposit is discovered in the middle-east

[@SunriseKnight]

Such good content when you showed the propeller build

[@schlollepop]

Next step? Powering from a scale nuclear reactor? Cool project!

[@adhdaf]

the mic clipped to the screwdriver was a delightful bit of silliness 😂

[@jeffgTrialsBikes]

So enjoyable to watch! Thank You!

[@sleeplessstu]

Looks like “Battleship Galactica” with those power outriggers ! 😂

[@FarrellMcGovern]

The way that was riding, I am surprised you didn't go for turning it into a Hydrofoil! A hydrofoil Nimitz would be wild!

[@dfgaJK]

13:41 Is it Tupperware though? Also, you're supposed to take the cookie out first! 🤣

[@axoneer7806]

that duck was so chill when you picked it up

[@ivainmartinossi7529]

We know it's nearing the end of the project when you pull out the foam board and packaging tape XD

[@MyNewUserName47]

very nice vid, and nice job on the mods. so far the fastest real life carrier has been CVN 65. her hull design was different from other carriers. she was ran as fast on her last speed run as her first. she was also the fastest shooter.

[@donkey1331]

This guys videos are just the best.

[@thoughtful_criticiser]

Videoing the ship in slow mo is how they assess the effects of the sea on scale models when developing real vessels in test tanks.

[@gwheyduke]

An interesting study of ESC's and battery power.

[@Razer_-fe9mo]

Now we need to see you make one of those tiny planes R/C!

[@toolbaggers]

You should make the drive pontoons look like tug boats, re-supply ships, frigate or whatever is close to scale.

[@joshuavillwo]

I love the cookie in the tupperware along with the flight controller, GPS, etc!

[@Sandwich_Collapse]

try to make an rc plane go scale speed, that would be cool to see!

[@LobstersLobsters]

check out the indoor flying airbus in Stuttgart

[@raguhmuffin]

I recently learned about the Voith Schneider propulsion system, not sure it would be useful for the majority of your projects but I bet you could find something interesting to do with it!

[@kevinballenger1211]

I Served 4 Years Aboard The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), In Air Dept/V-1 Div, As An ABH3 From 1980 - 1984. When We Did High Speed Maneuvers, Although Top Speed Is Classified, We Could Tell By The Water Passing Under Us That We Were Going Faster Than 35 Mph! ⚓

[@FuzedBox]

The real speed of a Nimitz-class carrier was declassified in an episode of Home Improvement.

[@FriendxA]

i was stationed on three aircraft carriers and can attest that our cruising speed is 35mph, but our full speed is well above that.

[@zero_gravity5861]

just watched bridge over the river kwai the other night, and the sheer speed of this carrier is roughly proportional to nicholson’s insanity

[@caspernowak]

Awesome!!!! How much more efficient/faster would it be if converted into a hydrofoil?

[@marvintraxel6955]

I really like the front on camera style of narration

[@32rq]

"Unpowered cargo gliders on tow ropes promise 65% cheaper air freight" I need to see the @rctestflight version of this tested

[@somenamelessdude8095]

I was on the Kitty Hawk cv63. One time we pulled 37 knots. The captain was so proud he told us on the ships horn. Conventional too

[@InfiniteNesLives]

Just want you to know you guys are my favorite. Don’t stop being awesome.

[@Marcus-xb7le]

I am disappointed, expected model planes catapulting and landing on that thing heh;)

[@brucebadeau9906]

ALWAYS love your work --- KEEP GOING -- EXCELLENT and INTERESTING

[@UKMike2009]

Admirable engineering development!

[@diyelectricbiker9361]

Dude has turned Aircraft into a Rocket Ship. I think Pentagon will call you next week.

[@jayrowe6473]

Get back to me when you can launch RC Jets and fly them off that RC Aircraft Carrier.